Richard Ngamita
@ngamita.bsky.social
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researcher studying influence ops & mass surveillance
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Jenny Cohn
29 days ago
“a16z-Backed Startup Sells Thousands of ‘Synthetic Influencers’ to Manipulate Social Media as a Service *** Andreessen Horowitz is funding a company that clearly violates the inauthentic behavior policies of every major social media platform.” (Andreessen also helped Elon by Twitter.) 10/24/24 … 1/
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a16z-Backed Startup Sells Thousands of ‘Synthetic Influencers’ to Manipulate Social Media as a Service
Andreessen Horowitz is funding a company that clearly violates the inauthentic behavior policies of every major social media platform.
https://www.404media.co/a16z-backed-startup-sells-thousands-of-synthetic-influencers-to-manipulate-social-media-as-a-service/
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Today i'm blasting to "Are we a Warrior"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WP3D...
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Ijahman - Are We A Warrior
YouTube video by RastaChaka
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WP3DUGYzGvk&list=RDWP3DUGYzGvk
30 days ago
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really some great investigative journalist here 👇👏
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about 1 month ago
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guns, cash and US aid - israel's support for gaza militia via
@news.sky.com
news.sky.com/story/guns-c...
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Guns, cash and American aid: Investigation reveals Israel's support for Gaza militia
The former looting gang is living in luxury thanks to aid from the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation and smuggled cash, cars and cigarettes.
https://news.sky.com/story/guns-cash-and-american-aid-investigation-reveals-israels-support-for-gaza-militia-13442260
about 1 month ago
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it's all Moldova this weekend and the massive targeting with FIMI (influence ops)
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2 months ago
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Seamus Hughes
2 months ago
Here you go, Internet.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Tech Policy Press
2 months ago
After Charlie Kirk's shooting, X's Grok and Google's AI Overviews spread false claims. Varsha Bansal explores how misinformation is laundered by AI during breaking news, and the challenges of moderating and regulating AI systems.
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What Does It Take To Moderate AI Overviews? | TechPolicy.Press
After Charlie Kirk's shooting, X's Grok and Google's AI Overviews spread false claims, raising urgent concerns about AI moderation, reports Varsha Bansal.
https://buff.ly/DIRij9C
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CYBERWARCON
2 months ago
Have you submitted your talk proposal yet? 👀 Due 11:59 PM (ET) on Friday, September 26th, 2025. We pay $500 for each 30-min talk. Lightning round talks excluded, but everyone gets great swag! Learn more:
www.cyberwarcon.com/cfp2025
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Call for Proposals — CYBERWARCON
Call For Proposals
https://www.cyberwarcon.com/cfp2025
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is it just me or has it become impossible to know what's actually true online? how do we solve this?
3 months ago
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The Intercept
3 months ago
This is how bots, influencers, and political actors distort real-world violence before facts emerge.
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The Disinformation Machine After a Murder
Taylor Lorenz and Akela Lacy on how bots, influencers, and political actors distort real-world violence before facts emerge.
https://theintercept.com/2025/06/20/minnesota-lawmaker-shootings-disinformation-taylor-lorenz/
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Pop Base
3 months ago
Charlie Kirk has been shot during an event at Utah Valley University.
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Marc Owen Jones
3 months ago
Look what's in close proximity to Israel's illegal attack on Doha, at least 2 nurseries, 3 schools, 6 embassies, a petrol station, a public park. This all happened in the middle of the afternoon, when schools are ending and children engaging in extra curricular activities
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this 👇
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3 months ago
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Electronic Frontier Foundation
3 months ago
“Social media sites and chat apps normally strip metadata by default,” which protects privacy, EFF’s Jacob Hoffman-Andrews told Straight Arrow News. ”If XChat is failing to strip metadata, it’s putting its users at risk.”
san.com/cc/not-so-s...
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Not so secret: X’s new encrypted chat feature puts users at risk, experts say
X's new XChat feature does not remove sensitive metadata from images, which could lead to the exposure of GPS coordinates.
https://san.com/cc/not-so-secret-xs-new-encrypted-chat-feature-puts-users-at-risk-experts-say/
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Israel operated various fake Twitter, Telegram and websites to recruit Iranians to rise against their gov.
#influence
www.leefang.com/p/digital-fr...
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Digital Fragments Unveil Online Campaign to Flip Iranian Nuclear Scientists
Mysterious online campaign linked to Israel attempted to recruit Iranians to overthrow their government. Some appear placed by an Atlanta-based influencer.
https://www.leefang.com/p/digital-fragments-unveil-online-campaign
3 months ago
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thank you 🙏
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3 months ago
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Foreign Policy
3 months ago
Geography matters hugely in geopolitics—Russia is almost entirely separated from the global south by a buffer of former Soviet states, Sarang Shidore writes.
foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/01/g...
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Why the Global South Won’t Quit Russia
For rising states with expanding ambitions, three great powers are preferable to two.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/01/global-south-russia-india-oil/
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The Atlantic
3 months ago
Donald Trump is reportedly planning to rename the Department of Defense as the Department of War.
@radiofreetom.bsky.social
argues that the move is a stunt that could wind up embarrassing the Pentagon and costing millions. Read more:
theatln.tc/r1lU6FWz
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Alejandra Caraballo
3 months ago
This is the digital stasi. Social media influencers utilizing tips from followers for content that they monetize while working with state actors to target the people they want. It's all a spectacle packaged as content. Destroying people's lives for profitable ideological bloodsport.
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great investigation from ZdG re: Russia's troll farms in Moldova -
www.zdg.md/investigatii...
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VIDEO/ Armata digitală a Kremlinului. Investigație sub acoperire. „Se plătește, hai să vă spun, se plătește direct de la Moscova”
Sute de conturi cu identități false, în spatele cărora stau activiști reali ai Blocului „Victorie”, controlat de Ilan Șor de la Moscova, au fost create pentru a răspândi propagandă rusească pe TikTok ...
https://www.zdg.md/investigatii/ancheta/video-armata-digitala-a-kremlinului-investigatie-sub-acoperire-se-plateste-hai-sa-va-spun-se-plateste-direct-de-la-moscova/
3 months ago
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what's going on in germany
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Germany's far-right AfD suffers series of candidate deaths ahead of local vote
Police say there is no evidence of foul play, ahead of local elections in western Germany.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5ykyewrerpo?utm_source=chatgpt.com
3 months ago
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Stephanie Mencimer
3 months ago
National Guardsmen now stationed outside our DC building confirmed that the only thing they can do if they witness a crime is call 911. The have no more authority than my office mate to intervene. Despite the handcuffs, they can't make arrests. They are very expensive mall cops.
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liars dividend ..
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3 months ago
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stellz
3 months ago
The Kant Car
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Faine Greenwood
3 months ago
This is an OK piece on how drones could potentially be used for terrorism in the U.S….but the example case cited here, in which Neo-Nazi Skyler Philippi plotted to blow up an energy facility with a drone in 2024, has been, IMO, overblown as an example of a drone terrorism near-miss:
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Alarm as US far-right extremists eye drones for use in domestic attacks
Experts say extremists openly talking of how home-built drones will be critical tool in so-called second civil war
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/30/us-far-right-extremists-drones
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tonight "lee perry" in dub
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bx9R...
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Lee Perry - Perry In Dub
YouTube video by Reggae2Reggae
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bx9RNB43gjs&list=OLAK5uy_ktTUw9K0lfLmKu7BgCtrXRSsF2l9SbV2s
3 months ago
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vibe coding music -- how did we get here 🤔
3 months ago
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80% of strikes in the russia/ukraine war are now done with drones, per @skynews. this changes everything about how war is fought going forward.
3 months ago
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got a 40'' monitor, just used for a week and now going back to 27'' - honestly my productivity went down as everything is on the screen and makes me feel like i have to address them all.
3 months ago
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ProPublica
3 months ago
On the left: Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old DOGE staffer and college dropout. On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar. This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media. Then the Taliban took his family. 🧵
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good citizens (journos + activists) in authoritarian states use vpns to protect themselves from man-in-middle attacks during elections. so this conversation can go in different directions 👇
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3 months ago
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the most effective disinformation feeds into something that society already believes in
#thoughts
3 months ago
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it just doesn't feel normal seeing soldiers at the metro stations in d.c. 😐 - their body languages also show that they are so bored.
3 months ago
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i've not written any
#rstats
script in a while - why? apparently the quick little summaries i used to use
#rstats
for can be done in claude ai in secs. my prompts also make sure i get ggplot style visualizations 📈
3 months ago
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a really smart phishing campaign pretending to have come from google failed message send to past @google.com email that owned 12+ years ago.
3 months ago
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a great use of
#osint
- tracking toyota land cruiser from rsf camp deep in libyan desert to sudan
www.youtube.com/watch?v=umaF...
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How we found an RSF military camp in the Libyan desert
YouTube video by CIR - Centre for Information Resilience
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umaFPlwJUKM
3 months ago
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mastodon.social/@aboutsignal...
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Signal News & Tips (@
[email protected]
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Attached: 1 image Meta AI, the honest spokesperson for #WhatsApp 🤣
https://mastodon.social/@aboutsignal/115014293962341597
3 months ago
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as someone who has lived under an authoritarian regime, I can tell you that just the talk of deploying the national guard in d.c. carries all the familiar warning signs of how these things begin.
4 months ago
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"sufferer's time" by the heptones
#roots
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCkL...
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THE HEPTONES - Sufferer's Time/THE UPSETTERS - Sufferer's Dub
YouTube video by Cheikh Tidiane NDAO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCkLTNEDns0
4 months ago
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i'll be starting a blog, talking about some of my thoughts around ai, societal issues and disinformation threats.
4 months ago
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my best prompt on llms is 'explain this like i'm 9 years old'.. i'm learning so many things that didn't make sense to me 10 year ago.
4 months ago
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Shipwreck
4 months ago
A tsunami warning is currently in effect for the Eastern Pacific Coast of Hokkaido and Tohoku region, Kanto region, Izu & Ogasawara Islands, Tokai region, and Wakayama Prefecture. Tsunami waves may arrive imminently—evacuate immediately to higher ground.
www.jma.go.jp/bosai/map.ht...
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気象庁|統合地図ページ
地図コンテンツページです。気象警報、大雨危険度、台風情報、気象情報、天気予報、季節予報、ひまわり、アメダス、ウィンドプロファイラ、海上警報、潮位観測情報、波浪観測情報、津波、地震情報、推計気象分布、震央分布、噴火警報、降灰予報を表示します。
https://www.jma.go.jp/bosai/map.html#4/37.995/141.469/&elem=warn&contents=tsunami&lang=en
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my good friend
archive.is
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4 months ago
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just saying fb systems finally getting better at catching fake accounts.. efforts to create sockpuppets for personal research many times being flagged by their systems. 👏
4 months ago
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the thing about llms usage (for anything) - is that if you're really good at any field; it will be make you 10x times better..
4 months ago
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not sure why google would put "upload image from ai" way above the "upload image from computer" on google docs in the menu. super annoying!
4 months ago
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not sure d.c will recover from all these hits from the past 6 months from usaid, tech to state dept. 🤔
5 months ago
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with vibe coding.. programming is never going to be the same again. 🙃
5 months ago
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Joe Pierre, MD
6 months ago
Ever wonder "how can someone believe THAT?" My book "FALSE: How Mistrust, Disinformation, and Motivated Reasoning Make Us Believe Things That Aren't True" (Oxford University Press, 2025) explains why. Please give it a read, spread the word, and write a review! 🙏
drjoepierre.com/index.php/fa...
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Jeremiah Lowin
6 months ago
One of Anthropic's new security measures is a bandwidth limit on data egress from the environment that contains the model weights. The idea to slow down any exfiltration attempt long enough for the team to detect and intercept it!
www.anthropic.com/news/activa...
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Activating AI Safety Level 3 Protections
We have activated the AI Safety Level 3 (ASL-3) Deployment and Security Standards described in Anthropic’s Responsible Scaling Policy (RSP) in conjunction with launching Claude Opus 4. The ASL-3 Security Standard involves increased internal security measures that make it harder to steal model weights, while the corresponding Deployment Standard covers a narrowly targeted set of deployment measures designed to limit the risk of Claude being misused specifically for the development or acquisition of chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) weapons.
https://www.anthropic.com/news/activating-asl3-protections
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